RESIST JAPAN!

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 5

RESIST JAPAN!

CHINA’S DEMAND A COUNTRY-WIDE PROTEST. iUnited Press Association— By Electric Teiegrapn—(Jopyi'fgkc.; SHANGHAI, May 29.; Th e announcement is Blade that the Unirtiau GenerJ, Fengyuhsiang, ini,exiUi to lean an anti-oapanese -orce. no proposes preventing a truce. Tins is imeiy to complicate tne negotiations.. There is a. storm of protest Loin cliuereiit parts of the country demand, iiig tnat me xjhinese shall continue to. oner resistance to the Japanese. It is placing the Nanking Government and tlie northern political leaders in an awkward position. Canton definitely announces its refusal to recognise any Sino-Japanese truce.

Canton lias already despatched a large army, which is marching north wards, while the nineteenth route army is reported to be proceeding north for the same purpose. Disgruntled political elements are taking advantage of the northern situation to arouse national hostility toward the Central Government.

INDIFFERENCE IN THE SOUTH. IMPRESSIONS OF A VISITOR,. AUCKLAND, May 29. An Auckland business man, who returned to-day from -the Orient, said that in the cities of South China, one would hardly know that any hostilities were in progress. The war was never discussed and the business people did not seem to take .it seriously. Determined efforts were being made by Italian shipping lines to capture the passenger trade between China and Europe.